Listen to Neon Jazz’s interview with Sophie here.
And the Jazz in Family blog has coverage in Italian (worth auto-translating!) here.
Category: news
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New Release Preview: Fall 2026 through early 2027
September marks the start of our most ambitious series of new releases yet!
LATE SEPTEMBER 2026: The newest recording by The New York Piano Quartet — violinist Elmira Darvarova, violist Ronald Carbone, cellist Sam Magill, and pianist Linda Hall — brings together two inexplicably underplayed masterpieces of the romantic era — the piano quartets of Charles-Marie Widor and Amanda Maier — with American eclectic master David Amram‘s Portraits for piano quartet.
LATE SEPTEMBER 2026: Satori — the first solo album from Berlin-based Irist clarinetist Carol McGonnell, features virtuoso music for clarinet(s) by Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Allain Gaussin, Béla Kovács and Jörg Widmann.FALL 2026: Miranda Cuckson reunites with Blair McMillen for their second recording together for Urlicht: Ballads, thirteen works for violin or viola and piano, by Manuel Ponce, Robert Cuckson, Michelle Barzel Ross, Paolo Marchettini, Billy Jim Layton, Quincy Jones (arr. Blair McMillen), Matthew Aucoin, Zosha di Castri, Toshio Hosokawa, Francesco Landini (arr. Blair McMillen), James Primosch, Lili Boulanger, and Coleman Hawkins (after Johnny Green, transcribed by Ethan Iverson).
FALL 2026: The Urlicht debut of pianist Beth Levin, in a program tha includes Mozart‘s Piano Sonata K331 “Alla Turca”, Mendelssohn‘s Variations serieuses, Wang Xilin‘s atmospheric The Night in a Deserted Village, Ravel’s Menuet antique and an American masterpiece, Peter Mennin‘s Five Piano Pieces.
FALL 2026: The brilliant, irrepressible Swedish jazz singer Sophie Dunér teams up with New York pianist-composer-improvisor Anthony Coleman for a program of Sophie’s wry, inspied songs: Messed-Up Stride.FALL 2026: A world-premiere recording of music for solo violin by composer Jeffrey Mumford, played by Miranda Cuckson.
2027: Ethan Iverson teams up with pianist Hiroko Sasaki for a program of four-hands piano music composed and arranged by Ethan, including his Sonata for Four Hands and inimitable realizations of music by Vivaldi and Ravel. Also included: Ethan plays solo piano works by Matthew Guerreri (better known in the blogosphere as Soho the Dog) and James P. Johnson.
2027: New music by composer Ann Cleare, in a program that includes recordings by Carol McGonnell with the JACK Quartet.
… and more to come! DEVELOPING…
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The Chimera interview
In advance of the CD and digital release of Chimer’as eponymous recording debut, the ensemble has recorded an interview you can watch on Vimeo!
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Ethan Iverson Interviews Georg Friedrich Haas
Go read Ethan Iverson’s interview with composer Georg Friedrich Haas on Substack – published in advance of a Thursday concert premiere At New York City’s Merkin Hall of Haas’s Annäherung with Miranda Cuckson and Parker Ramsay.
You can get tickets for the concert here.
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The updated Urlicht AudioVisual web site is live at last!
We’re still working out a few quirks, but it’s up and running. Check it out!
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Celebrating the release of Ethan Iverson’s Playfair Sonatas
Ethan Iverson and Carol McGonnell On Sunday and Monday we celebrated the CD/download/streaming release of Ethan Iverson‘s Playfair Sonatas on Urlicht AudioVisual at Salon 58 and Yamaha’s amazing showroom/venue. Mike Lormand played the Trombone Sonata and Carol McGonnell played the Clarinet Sonata.
(Also featured on the recording: marimbist Makoto Nakura violinist Miranda Cuckson, saxophonist Taimur Sullivan, and trumpeter Tim Leopold.)
Ethan Iverson and Mike Lormand The Salon 58 gig also featured the world premiere of Ethan’s Sonata for Four Hands, performed with Hiroko Sasaki.
I am immensely grateful to Piers Playfair, impresario extraordinaire, for backing this project, Ryan Streber and the staff at Oktaven Audio (especially Jessica Slavin) where the recordings took place, Bonnie Barrett at Yamaha for getting us a terrific instrument and hosting the Monday release event, piano tech Shane Hoshino, Roz Chast for the terrific cover art, Christina Jensen and Kira Grunenberg for going above and beyond in getting the word out about the release, Miranda for mentioning my label to Ethan – and especially to Ethan, a whirlwind of imaginative creativity and improvisatory delight, with whom it is a joy and an honor to work! -
Latin Grammy Nomination for desde Estudios a Tangos
Urlicht AudioVisual is pleased to announce that desde Estudios a Tangos, featuring violinist Elmira Darvarova and legendary tango pianist and arranger Octavio Brunetti, has been nominated for a Latin Grammy®!
The CD was released in September of last year, just days after Octavio’s unexpected death following a brief illness. We are humbled that this disc commemorates a greatly missed champion of tango music at the peak of his abilities in a partnership with one of his very favorite musical collaborators.
desde Estusios a Tangos
Ástor Piazzolla
6 Études tanguistiques • Introducción al Ángel • Night Club 1960 • Milonga del Ángel • Vardarito • Resurreccion del Ángel • RevolucionarioElmira Darvarova, violin
Octavio Brunetti, pianoRecorded January 19, 2013 at Gill Chapel, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
Engineered and edited by John C. Baker
Produced by Gene GaudetteUrlicht AudioVisual UAV-CD-5991
